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Technical information
| Symbol | ||
| Name | Enquiry | |
| Unicode number | U+0005 | |
| Category | ASCII Table1. ASCII control characters | |
| Description | The Unicode character U+0005, is known as the "Enquiry". It belongs to the "Control Pictures" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a control character in the ASCII standard, originally used to request a response from a remote machine in telecommunication. Its purpose was to see if the remote machine was still present and accepting communication. In practice, this usage is quite rare today, and the specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity |  | |
| HTML Entity (hex) |  | |
| URL Escape Code | %05 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0x05 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 00000101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x0005 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00000005 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u0005" | |
| CSS Code | \0005 | |
| JavaScript | "\u0005" | |
| Perl | \x{0005} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u0005" | |
| Python 3 | \u0005 | |
| Ruby | \u{0005} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .
input-group
Font size:
12px
16px
20px
28px
36px
48px
72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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200
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400
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HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span></span>
span {
content: "\0005";
}The symbol in different fonts
-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana